Assessment of Post-Fire Vegetation Dynamics in a Raised Bog (Western Siberia) Based on Landsat Satellite Data
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https://doi.org/10.52575/2712-7443-2025-49-1-112-127Keywords:
wildfire, Great Vasyugan mire, NBR, NDWI, geobotanical research, Tomsk regionAbstract
Wildfires are an important factor in the transformation of mire ecosystems, and their effects persist for a long time. Despite the fact that mires drying up during prolonged droughts are among natural sites with an increased fire risk, there has been little research on fire consequences and post-fire restoration of burnt-out areas within mires using satellite data. The article presents the results of an assessment of the post-fire vegetation restoration of a site in the Great Vasyugan mire that burned out in 2016, based on Landsat data and geobotanical field research materials. The authors analyze the temporal dynamics of the NBR, NDWI indices and their difference indicators for eight years after the fire for sites with different intensity of pyrogenic load and reveal the interrelationships with the characteristics of vegetation cover. It has been found that the NBR index better reflects the degree of pyrogenic load, and the NDWI shows the post-fire restoration of mire vegetation. The indices considered have high coefficients of determination with projective cover of trees, NBR and dNBR reflect the projective cover of dwarf shrubs and the proportion of open surfaces better than NDWI, while dNBR and dNDWI perform better in respect to the projective cover of sphagnum mosses. The first two to four years after the fire were characterized by a high growth rate of both indices, as open land was rapidly covered by dwarf shrubs, then the growth of the indices slowed down. The projected recovery of index values while maintaining current growth rates will occur by 2028–2030, that is, 12–14 years after the fire. After that, the growth of the indices is likely to continue and will reflect an increase in the projective cover of deciduous trees instead of pines. The revealed correlations of the NBR and NDWI indices with the characteristics of vegetation cover based on the example of a key site will be used to assess the state of burnt-out raised bog in vast areas.
Acknowledgements: The research was financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 22-77-10024.
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